Obamacare sucks not because of !!OMG SOCIALISM!! but because it is regressive favoring insurance companies rather than normal people.
I now live where there is socialized medicine but my wife’s sister and husband end up saving money by paying the fine rather than getting the insurance for themselves which they can’t afford. I dont fully know their financials but there are pre-existing conditions which got them kicked out of individual payer insurance and they haven had for at least ten years.
WTF United State? Single payer health insurance is just as socialist as universal k-12 education and has similar payback to society inclding republican interests like WalMart which rely on socialism to subsidize their low wages.

Have to be honest, just skimmed the cartoon. However, It was never about cost reductions more coverage etc, it is a MASSIVE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM first and Healthcare second. If cost reductions were wanted, publishing costs on procedures and education consumers on how to shop for price per procedure would have been included. Allowing insurance to break state monopolies is another huge place to save money. But … nope nobody reads the TOS including the one ultra scary one on the federal exchange.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him think. I would share this with the family member who insists that the Affordable Care Act is “just like what they’ve got in Canada, and it’s a mess and the Canadians all hate it!”*, but what would be the point?

*Verbatim quote. I briefly thought about asking where this misinformation was coming from, but I’ve learned that often asking certain people to cite a source just results in a lot of spluttering and name-calling.

Ronald Reagan’s executive orders on federalism? The whole point of that was to divest power from the federal government back to the states, and for the most part it has had little to no effect in Washington, and absolutely no effect on the ACA signed 23 years later.

I would share this with the family member who insists that the Affordable Care Act is “just like what they’ve got in Canada, and it’s a mess and the Canadians all hate it!”*, but what would be the point?

I would also share it with an (in-law) family member who hates Obamacare for all the usual reasons including the fact that his insurance premiums went up. It turns out that the ‘insurance’ he was getting from his employer basically amounted to a few GP visits every year.

Of course I don’t hold it against the people doing it (what choice do they have anyway?), but the amount of begging letters going around Facebook, Boing Boing and other sites from Americans who can’t pay for their healthcare is embarrassing. Most of the time these people had good jobs before they got sick - they were also paying more than I do for insurance. A good friend of mine who was young, healthy, employed and insured almost died last year and now is tens of thousands in debt because he became ill with something tangentially related to another illness he had a few years ago. Say what you like about socialised healthcare, at least it involves countries paying for the basic needs of their own citizens. When healthcare becomes a crowdfunded popularity contest, this says some pretty serious things about the priorities of those in charge.

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Also look up who created the ICD 10 standard what its used for and who gets a copy of it. (Pun intended)

To federal officials authorized to conduct intelligence, counter-intelligence, and other national security activities under the National Security Act (45 CFR 164.512(k)(2)) or to provide protective services to the President and others and conduct related investigations (45 CFR 164.512(k)(3));

Ignoring the utterly insane conspiracy theory derail, I’d like to mention that this is a good cartoon about a very important issue. I wish as many people would pay attention to this as to the latest Gamergate news.

I think all the misinformation about the ACA is a good example of why it’s impossible to have any kind of reasoned political discourse in America anymore. Even just pointing out that it apes the old Heritage Foundation plan from decades ago is flat-out denied, when you can actually check online (there are more similarities than differences, including the “individual mandate” that the GOP now insists is un-Constitutional.)